Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-06 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Chris Bennett wrote: > Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >> I can see about trying to write something for someone completely new >> to Debian server administration, PostgreSQL and Apache2, since you're >> not the

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Bennett
Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > >> I don't know how to deal with dependencies in a .deb. I may not be >> alone. I used dpkg -i to install the package. I got a lot of >> complaints. "apt-get -f install" seemed to fix things up. >>

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-05 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | Error! | LedgerSMB/User.pm:199: FATAL: database "host=localhost" does not exist On #ledgersmb IRC channel today: I am trying to get ledgersmb 1.2 up and running, but I am only greeted with LedgerSMB/User.pm:199: FATAL: database "host=localhost"

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-05 Thread Nigel Titley
Bob Meyers wrote: > Man I hear your pain. I am a newbie too, and I went on a four day/all night > obsession trying to get it working. I finally did. I agree the existing > documentation is more a puzzle than a howto. > I understand your pain too. I'm a fairly experienced Apache and MySQL user bu

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-04 Thread Bob Meyers
.@mimosa.com] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:26 PM To: ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started Why am I, a newbie, posting my experiences to the developers' list? Because I'm only this ignorant once, ignorant enough to run into

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I don't know how to deal with dependencies in a .deb. I may not be > alone. I used dpkg -i to install the package. I got a lot of > complaints. "apt-get -f install" seemed to fix things up. I'm afraid a lot of these problems are mor

[Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Why am I, a newbie, posting my experiences to the developers' list? Because I'm only this ignorant once, ignorant enough to run into problems that the experienced among you cannot even imagine. Oscar Wilde said "Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom is gone." This long messa